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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jack D. Young, post: 4344404, member: 93371&quot;]In going through and organizing some piles on my train wreck desk I pulled this example out and noticed it to be different than the current Chinese counterfeit &quot;family&quot; based on the 1804 C-6 half cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>This example not only has the die breaks on the reverse (the Chinese ones are &quot;earlier&quot;) but appears to be later than the documented states of genuine examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1100148[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1100149[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In researching for more information I found an older CT post from 2009 (<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/exhibit-half-cents-1804-january-1st-2009-fish.45705/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/exhibit-half-cents-1804-january-1st-2009-fish.45705/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/exhibit-half-cents-1804-january-1st-2009-fish.45705/</a>) which stated:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot; Finally, something a little different. This isn&#039;t a coin at all. It is a construct made by or at the request of Gene Braig to show how he believed the reverse die may have progressed. It also corresponds to Breen&#039;s state XVI, which he claimed to have discovered an example of in around 1954, as well as Katman state 10 which that cataloger had not seen. According to Breen, Roger Cohen may have seen or known of an example. No example of this coin or anything close to it is currently known to collectors. They never existed or are now lost. This is almost certainly an electrotype, as the piece itself is exceedingly heavy&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately the images aren&#039;t available in that post and I wondered if anyone here might have access to them and could share here?</p><p><br /></p><p>A friend offered a reverse image of another example as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1100150[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for any help, Jack.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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